Masuda Akari

"I still believe in miracles!"

Masuda Akari is one of the current kenkyuusei of AKB0048 as member of the 151st generation. She is also known as Akari.

Personality
Akari is very well behaved and towards strangers she behaves politely. Actually this isn't her regular self. She is a happy, playful girl. Sometimes, she is mischevious. She wants to stand in the center but this shown rare.

In the past, Akari was arrogant. She stopped with beeing this, because she understood, that she was wrong with AKB0048. Because of this, she often listens to others, when they talk about AKB0048.

When she first arrived on the Flying Get, she was a bit shy, because she didn't knew exactly what she should do. There, it also was shown, that she doesn't knows much about AKB0048. She didn't know, that Aoi, Ai and Mariko were members.

Skills
Akari often says, that she has no singing skills. Her voice isn't that good like her dancing skills, which became more and more better after she started with the regular training. She isn't perfect in battles but she is quiet good with Micsabers after the training. She likes them and later regular uses two of them. When she is on out, she usually has them with herself. Despite she hasn't a good singing voice, she wants to be a Seiyuu in the future.

Because her parents had a shop home, she is pretty good with 'speaking' with people. She can easy persuade the people. Also, she knows many things about diffrent planets history. History is her favourite subject and she loves to learn the history of things.

Apparance
Akari has dark brown hair and amber colored eyes. She wears her hair down with a small tail. Like every member of AKB0048, she has heart shaped sparkle in her hair and eyes.

Usually, Akari wears grey clothes with red accessories, because grey and red are her favourite colors. When she is reading, she wears red glasses, because she is farsighted.

She decided, that the regular senbatsu uniform of AKB0048 is her favourite stage uniform, because of the color and the style. She mentioned, that she can't wait to be in the senbatsu.

Past
Akari grew up in the faith, AKB0048 is evil and bad. Because of this, she doesn't know much about 0048.

Auddition
Some of Akaris friends wanted to auddition when the 150th generation was open. This was something, Akari didn't want, so she threatened that she would tell this to the D.G.T.O. Her friends didn't want this more than audditon. When the audditions of the 151st Generation started, her friends tried again to auddition. This time, they threatened Akari. They said, that they would tell the D.G.T.O. that she wanted to auddition, if she would say anything. At least, Akari audditioned too without wanting it. On the way to the Audditions, she and her friends were attacked by the DES. Some WOTA saved them and took them to the Flying Get. On the way, Akari saw the first time Entertainment though some videos of AKB0048. She started to lvoe it from the beginn of the video. The heart-shaped sparkles appeared then. From this on, she wanted to become a kenkyuusei. Also with this wish, something which she calls her Catchphrase. Akari thought, that music was a true comming miracle. From this on, she believed, that the galaxy keeps more miracles.

Since the auddition of the 150th generation, Akari had the feeling, that her friends didn't like her anymore.

River Selection
When she arrived on the Flying Get and knew about the Selection, Akari already had decided, that she would participle. Despite she was very scared of the battle, she tried to face forward. After a not so great conversation with Ashley, she met Miru and became something like friends with her.

Later, she was together with Ashley, Zoey and Miru in the Micsaber group and trained with Miku. When Hikari announced the break, the girls went together to the canteen. There, the girls sat on the table were the members were. Akari was suprised, that those girls were the members. She didn't knew this. The soon-to-be kenkyuusei, Ai, Aoi and Mariko talked about diffrent things.

In the late evenings of the training days, she learned some history of AKB0048. Thought this and her history talent, her knowlege raised very quickly. While learning some facts about the original members, the original Oshima Yuko became her rule model and favourite member, because she overcame "the ace" of AKB48 in the General Elections. Later, she also added the 9th Yuko to her Oshimen, because of her detamination to fulfill her dreams and the fact, that she didn't give up.

After the selection, Akari was the only one of Aleenstar who passed the auddition. She also was the only one of them who had the head-shaped sparkels in eyes and hair.

Selection Battle

Before the battle, Akari spoke with Miru, Ashley and Zoey.

Aleenstar
Aleenstar (アレンスター, Arensutā) is a planet in the Carros System (カロス-星系, Karosu seikei). The world is under the entertainment ban but in diffrent to other planets, mostly every inhabitant of Aleenstar is also against AKB0048. The planet is very modern but still has nature. On Aleenstar, the apparance is very important.. The captial and Akari's hometown is named Miare City (ミアレシティ)

Some people write Aleenstar as "Alleenstar" or "Allenstar"

Relationships

 * -|Successors =
 * Shibuya Komari - Sempai;
 * -|150th Generation =
 * Takayama Ai - Sempai;
 * Hoshimiya Aoi - Sempai;
 * -|151st Generation =
 * Ashley Snow - Fellow Kenkyuusei; Currently, Akari doesn't like her, because she just turned away while a conversation with Akari.
 * Asahina Miru - Fellow Kenkyuusei; The girls met eachother while the second selection round. Akari likes Miru a lot and considers her as the best of her current friends. She calls her Miruru.
 * Kashita Miyagi - Fellow Kenkyuusei; Akari met her while the second selection round. Akari and Miyagi usually train together a bit extra, because both didn't have great skills when they joined 0048. They are close friends.
 * Zoey Bright - Fellow Kenkyuusei;
 * Miyabi Honoka - Fellow Kenkyuusei; She met her while a break of the selection training. Akari likes Honoka and see her as a friend.
 * -|family=
 * Masuda Kojiro - Akari's father is an ex-DES-soldir who now runs a little shop. He was a regular DES-Soldir and nothing special. He still hates AKB0048. Until she "diappeared" and appeared then as member of AKB0048, he was very proud on her. Both liked eachother.
 * Masuda Sakura - Akari's mother also runs the shop and is against AKB0048. Despite this, she is a bit of proud on Akari.

Etymology
Masuda (増田) means increase rice field. The name was chosen, because of the fact that it is the surname of Millyna's favourite game designer, Jun'nichi Masuda.

Akari (明かり) can mean light or glimmer. 明 alone means also bright.

Quotes

 * "I still believe in miracles " - Akari's catchphrase
 * "0048 is just amazing, right? It's a long story why I'm here. " - Akari in Stage One 2.0: Kenkyuusei Dreams

Songs

 * Yume o sagasu - Her character Song
 * Kono atarashii hi ni - She is part of the Senbatsu

Trivia

 * The Kanji 田 is also used in Kashita Miyagi's name. In her name, it is pronounciated as "da" but in Miyagi's name as "ta"
 * Her Kirara looks simlilar to the Kirara of the 9th Oshima Yuko and Asahina Miru's. She named it Notes.
 * Akari's Seiyuu is Yu Serizawa, a member of the Idol group i*Ris, who also voiced Minami Mirei and Fukuhara Ann in the Pretty Rhythm Series.
 * Another member of i*Ris voices Asahina Miru. This member voiced Manaka Lalaa in the series.